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of Samuel ScwalL 

mhittter. 

"As long as Plum Island, to guard the coast 
As God appointed, shall keep its post; 
As long as a salmon shall haunt the deep 
Of Merrimac River, or sturgeon leap; 
As long as pickerel swift and slim, 
Or red-backed perch, in Crane Pond swim; 
As long as the annual sea-fowl know 
Their time to come and their time to go; 
As long as cattle shall roam at will 
The green, grass meadows of Turkey Hill; 
As long as sheep shall look from the side 
OfOldtown Hill on marishes wide. 
And Parker River and salt-sea tide; 
As long as a wandering pigeon shall search 
The fields below from his white-oak perch, 
When the barley harvest is ripe and shorn. 
And the dry husks fall froin the standing corn; 
As long as Nature shall not grow old. 
Nor drop her work from her doting hold, 
And her care for the Indian corn forget. 
And the yellow rows in pairs to set; — 
So long shall Christians here be born, 
Grow up and ripen as God's sweet corn!— 
By the beak of bird, by the breath of frost, 
Shall never a holy ear be lost, 
But, husked by Death in the Planter's sight, 
Be sown again in the fields of light!" 
Tlie Island still is purple with plums, 
Up the river the salmon comes, 
The sturgeon leaps, and the wild-fowl feeds 
On hillside berries and marish seeds, — 
All the beautiful signs remain, 
P^rom spring-time sowing to autumn rain 
The good man's vision returns again! 
And let us hope, as well we can. 
That the Silent Angel who garners man 
May find some grain as of old he found 
In the human cornfield ripe and sound, 
And the Lord of the Harvest deign to own 
The precious seeds by the fathers sown! 



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bration ot tbe ifitttetb 
Bnniverear^ ot tbe Hn 
corporation ot tbe Ci 
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1851 




1901 



nnonba'^, June ^went^ssfouvtb, 
XLuesbai?, June XTwenti^^fiftb, 
Mebnesba's, June tlwent'^sSiitb, 



Xist ot Coinnuttece 

General Committee.— Samuel Brookings, F. A. Morse, J. D. King, G. A. Johnson. 
Wui. H. Welch, G. S. Lang, C. N. Maguire, G. E. Torrev, C. E. Ives, C. A. Stockman, 
Clarence Daiiforth, C. W. Parker. A. E. Goodwin, S. I. Little, B. J. Conley, W. C.O'Con- 
nell A. H. Wells, Thomas Noyes, A. D. Frost, P. H.Kimball, C. R. Todd, Joseph Hud-j 
son. S.J. Ford, E. C. Knight, Dr. J. F. Young, Dr. S. O. Pilling, C. L. Davis, CM.' 
Pritchard, Dr. D. Foss, S. M. Miller, Wm. J. Ray, J. B. Frost, B. G. Gerrish, Francis 
Curtis, W. C. Cof!in, Louis Patriquin, N. D. Dodge, E. W. Eaton, Walter Packer 
J M.' Holland, E. M. Ingalls, John Elliott, Dennis Creeden, J. E. O'Sullivan, 
Dr John Homer, C. L. Perkins, S. A. Bridges, H. F. McGlev^r, W. A. Dickey, F. J. Hay 
J. F. Moylan, John Coffee, Mrs. M. N. Blood. Miss E. M. Howe, E. T. Choate, Dr. C. W. 
Hidden,' J. A. Harris, D. W. Nutting, T. B. Robbins, G. A. Dickey, Charles Bartlett, 
G. H. Bragg, G. H. Mar.ston, Wm. H. Bayley, D. G. Kendall, E. W. Tiltou, Charles C. 
0'DonnelL''Capt. O. O. Jones, Patrick Sullivan, G. E. Hodgkins, G. W. I. Colby, A. K. 
Fowler, Timothy Harrington, Dr. C. F. Johnson, J. R. Comley, W. F. Pottle, J. T Robin- 
son, G. C. Morrill, O. B. Merrill, P. A. Merrill, William Burns, John Kane, Mary A. 
Top'pan, Eliza A. Little, Edgar Reade, George Peckham, F. B. Hubbard, Rev. J. W. 
Dodge, C. A. Bliss, F. U. Cutter, C. W. Ayers, A. C. Pearson, E- B. Stover, N. N. Jones, 
B. C.Welch, R. S. Tibbetts, cAlderm^n-'Clarence ] . Fogg. Counctlmen—W . W. Hicks, 
S. R. Welch, F. P. Knight, W. B. Frost, Hugh FTart, Jr., C. P. Kelley, S. J. Hughes, 
W. H. O'Brien, J. M. Chase. P\ W. Dorr. 

Executive Committee. — Mavor Brown, Alderman Withington, Councilman R. G. 
Dodge, L. B. Cushing, O.J. Gurney^ B. F. Stanley, W. J. Hale, H. B. Little, W. C. Cuseck, 
D. H. Fowle, E. P. Shaw, Jere Healey, A. L. Huse, John W. vSargent, Dr. W. W. Pills- 
bury, E. P. Dodge, J. J. Currier, D. S. Burley, Irvin Besse, T. C. Simpson, Luther Dame, 
Hon.' Albert Currier, William Balch, G. P. Tilton, Capt. A. G. Perkins, S. C. Reed, P. A. 
Merrill, C J Fogg, P. B.Jackson, B. A. Appleton, R. Jacoby. 

Literary Committee.— E). P. Dodge, J. J. Currier, N. N. Withington. 

Finance CoMMirrEE. — Irvin Besse, D. S. Burley, J. H. Balch, Jr., W. F.Hous- 
ton. F. E. Smith, I. W. C Webster, W. G. Fisher, R. E. Burke, R. Jacoby, William 
Balch, J. F. Sullivan, W^ R.Johnson, J W.Allen, L. V. Barton, D. A. Goodwin, Jr., 
Moody Kimball, A. H. Beckford, Job Weston. 

Invitations to City's Guests. — T. C. Simpson, P. H. Lunt, W. J. Hale, G. P. 
Sargent. 

General Invitations. — Luther Dame, John F. Pearson, John E. Bailey, G. W. 
Manser, I. W. C. Webster, Charles L. Perkins. 

Reception. — Hons. Albert Currier, Benjamin Hale, J. O. Winkley A. R. Curtis, W. 
A. Johnson, G. H. Plumer, Thomas Huse. Rev. Dr. S. C. Beane, Rev. Dr. H. C. Hoyey, 
Messrs. Nath. Appleton, C. W. Johnson, C. C. Donnell, N. N. Jones, J. F. Carens, W. H. 
Bayley, Lawrence W. Brown, J. J. Currier, E.P.Dodge, T. C. Simpson, O. J. Gurney, 
R. G.Dodge, Arthur P. Brown, Timothy Herlihy, Grosvenor T. Blood, George W. 
Laugdon, H. R. Perkins, Mrs. William A. Johnson, Mrs. William H. Bayley, Miss Mary 
Top'pan, Mrs L. W. Brown, Miss Elizabeth Thurston, Miss Emily A. Getchell, Mrs. 
Joseph E. Moodv, Miss Ethel Parton. 

Music— William Balch, C A. Bliss, R. E. Burke, W. C. Cofhu, A. J. Casey, A. E. 
Goodwin. 

Military & Civic Parade.— Capt. A. G. Perkins, G. W. Langdon, Maj. E. F. Bart- 
lett, C. N. Safford, Col. C. L. Ayers, Robert G. Sargent, W. G. Fisher, R. Jacoby, B. I'. 
Hathaway, Jere Dineen, H. W. Bayley, J. F. Sullivan, Job Weston, Jere Healey, T. 
Harrington, G. W. Hussey. 

Fire Dei'-'VRTment Parade. — S. C. Reed, William Chase, W. W. Hutchins, S. '1'. 
Chase, Edgar G. Reade, G. W. Coffin, W. B Porter. 

DiNNivR. — Alfred Pearson, J. D. Parspust A.W". Rantoul, R.J. Foley, L. W. Sargent. 

Athletic Sports. — Arthur Withington, F. P Woodbury, R. L. Shepard, Stank v 
Besse, R. A. Pope, C. E. Fogg, J. E. Fowlp, F". S. Brown, Hugo Parton, Dr. T. R. Healey. 

Children's ENTiiRT.\iXMP:xT. — P. A. Merrill, Rey. W. H.Ryan, W- E.Andrews, 
L. F. Barton, W. P. Lunt, John Burke, H. P. Macintosh. 

Fireworks. — Iryin Besse, J. W. Sargent, C. H. Johnson. 

Printing AND Badges.— G. P. Tilton, R. G. Dodge, H. W. Little, P. H. Blum- 
pey, Jr , E. P. Shaw 

Tent. — C. J. Fogg. B.C.. Davis, C. P". Creeden. 

Decorations. — Alfred Pearson, O. F. Hatch, J. F. Sullivan, J. T. Lunt. 

TkansporT.\Tion and Carriages.— p. B. Jackson, William Barrett, W. F. Gillett, 
E. P. Shaw. 

Press. — B. A. Appleton, F. E Smith, J. E. Mannix, C. W. Johnson, G. R. Sargent. 

Ofeicial Progk.\m.— D. H. Fowle, Arthur Withington, W. C. Cuseck, G. P. Tilton. 

Y.\CHT Race. — R. Jacoby, William Balch, G. P" Avery, H. W. Little, Jere Healey. 
J. V. Felker, Treasurer. H. W. Little, Secreta.ry. 

Amer. Ant. Soc. 



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HON. CALEB GUSHING, 

FIRST MAYOR OF NEWBURYPORT. 




HON. MOSES B ROW N , 
MAYOR OF NEWBURYPORT. 




HON. ALBERT E. PILLSBURY, 

ORATOR OF THE OCCASION. 



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Appropriate morning services iu observance of the occasion will be held in 
the chuixhes of the city, and at 7.30 p. ni. there will be a united service of 
thanksgiving and song at the Pleasant street meeting-house as follows: 

1. "The heavens are telling." Trio and chorus from "Creation." Haydn 

Newburyport Choral Union, Mr. Emil Mollenhauer, Director. 

2. Scriptural ReadinCx . . . . . Rev. T. James Macfaddin 

3. "Jerus.\LEm" Chorus, from "Gallia." --__._ Gounod 

Choral Union. 

4. Prayer ------- - Rev. Myron Oakman Patten 

5. "S.A.NCTUS" from "vSaiut Cecilia" Mass. - - . - - _ Gounod 

6. Address ------- Hon. George F. Stone, of Chicago 

7. "The night is calm and cloudless," from "The Golden Legend." Sullivan 

Choral Union. 

8. Benediction -.-.--. Rev. Samuel C. Beane, D. D. 

9. "Halleli^ah" Chorus, from "Messiah" ------ Handel 



Hon. Moses Brown, Mayor, will preside. 





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Salute at Sunrise, 
Under the direction of A. W. Bartlett Post 49, G. A. R. 

Commemorative Exercises at City Hall 
10.30 a. m. 

1. Overture — "The Beautiful Galatea" ------- Suppe 

Nason's Orchestra, Mr. D. P. Nason, Leader. 

2. Prayer ------- - Rev. Samuel C. Beane, D. D. 

3. Address of Welcome ----- Hon. Moses Brown, Mayor 

4. Soldiers' Chorus from "Faust" Gounod 

Newburyport Choral Union, Mr. Emil Mollenhauer, Director. 

5. Reading, from the Holy Scriptures - - Rev. Horace C. Hovey, D. D. 

6. Americ.\ - ---- ----- Choral Union 

7. Anniversary Ode - ------ Lothrop Withington 

Read by Mr. N. N. Withington. 

8. Bell Solo Sax 

Mr. Herbert E. Card. 

9. Addricss --- - -- -- Hon. Albert E. Pillsbury 

10. "Th.^nks be to god" from "Elijah" - - - - . Mendelssohn 

Choral Union. 

11. Benediction Rev. Samuel C. Beane, D. D. 

12. M.\RCH, "Hail to the Spirit of Liberty" ------ Sousa 

Nason's Orchestra. 




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nDonba?, 3unc 24. 

( Continued. ) 



DINNER, 

Armory Hall, 2 p. m. 

Invocation --------- Rev. Arthur H. Wright 

Singing .-- Orpheus Quartet 

Mr. Warren Stanwood, Dr. G. E. L. Noyes, 

Mr. R. G. Adams, Mr. L. ,S. Choate. 

At the conclusion of the dinner there will be short addresses 
by distinguished guests. 

Music - - - Adelphi Orchestra 

John K. Nichols, leader. 

1. M.\RCH — "Hail to the Spirit of Liberty" - Sousa 

2. Overture — "Jubel" Weber 

3. Waltz— "Artist Life" ----- Sirauss 

4. Selection — "Burgomaster" - Luders 

5. Caprice Poetic — "Une Ondee de Sourires" ----- Bailey 

6. March — "Harvard Volunteers" Grace Weston Lttnt 

7. Selection — "Lohengrin" - - - Wao-ner 

8. Intermezzo — "Naila" - - - - - Delibes 

9. Hungarian Dances Bra Jims 

10. Selection — "vSan Toy" Jones 

11. Waltz — "Blue Danube" Strauss 

12. March — "The Viceroy" .-. Herbert 




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ncon&a?, 3unc 24, 



( Continued, ) 

Yacht Race, 3.30 p. m. 
Open to boats of the Merrimac River and vicinity. 

Course. 
For First Class (over 21 feet water line) and 

Second Class (under 21 feet water line). 

From an imaginary line between the stakeboat and the A. Y. C. wharf, be- 
tween the piers to the black spar buoy No. i off the north jetty, leaving it on the 
port, between the piers to stakeboat off A. Y. C. wharf, leaving it on the port, to 
and around the upper humpsands buoy, leaving it on the port, to a flag off Fox 
island creek, leaving it on the port, between the piers to the finish line. 

For the Third Class (Whitehalls) and Fourth Class (Dories). 

From an imaginary line between the stakeboat and the A. Y. C. wharf, between 
the piers to and around Woodbridge's island, leaving it on the starboard, between 
the piers to the finish line. 

Prizes. 
First Class: I20.00, I15.00, 112.00, IS. 00, fe.oo. 

Second Class: ^15.00, |;i2.oo, |8.oo, I3.00. 
Third Class: iS.oo, 1^5.00, I3.00. 

Fourth Class: |io.oo, |8.oo, ^5.00, ^3.00. 

There will be no time allowance. 

Judges. 
Benjamin G. Davis, William J. Creasey, H. W. S. Rogers. 

Time Keeper — Charles S. Putnam. 



BALLOON ASCENSION. 

Cushing Park, 5 p. m. 



CONCERT, RECEPTION AND REUNION. 

City Hall, 8 p. m. 



Music 



Newburyport Cadet Band 



John K. Nichols, leader. 
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COL. EBEN F. STONE, 

PRESIDENT OF THE FIRST COMMON COUNCIL. 




ttucsCiais, 3unc 25. 




Civic, Military and Industrial Parade 
lo a. m. 

Chief Marshal — Capt. Alexander G. Perkins. 

Chief of Staff— Capt. Charles N. vSafford. 

Aids — Capt. Francisco A. DeSousa, Capt. David E. Jewell, Lieut. Frank Stinson, 
Lieut. G. H. Dow, Lieut. Svanberg. 

Civilian Staff. 
Chief — Joseph H. A. Currier. 

Aids — Charles H. Webster, Irving K. Wells, Timothy Harrington, 
J. Cushing Todd, Leonard S. Davis, Frank Davis, 
George O. Plumer, Charles Morse, 
Frank M. Edmands. 

First Division. 

Maj. William Stopford, Division Commander. 

Naval Band, Portsmouth, Ralph Reinwald, leader. 

Sailors from the Battleship Massachusetts 
250 men. 

First battalion Sth regiment, M. V. M., companies A, B, E and G, 

175 men. 

Newburyport Cadet Band, John K. Nichols, leader. 

A. W. Bartlett, Post 49, G. A. R. and visiting posts. 

John P. Balch Garrison, R. & B., A. & N. U, 

J. M. Eaton, commanding. 

Carriages containing officials and guests. 

Shields and Haverhill divisions, A. O. H. 
Jere Dineen, commanding. 

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CIVIC, MILITARY AND INDUSTRIAL PARADE. 

( Continued. ) 

National Band, W. B. Knight, leader. 

Newburyport Fire Department, 

Chief Engineer Selwyn C. Reed, commanding. 

Salisbury Fife and Drum Corps. 

Newburyport Veteran Firemen's Association, 

Pres. D. G. Kendall, commanding. 

Haverhill City Band. 

Neptune Veteran Firemen's Association, 

Capt. W. B. Porter, commanding. 

O. U. A. M. 
L. L. Peavey, commanding. 

Newburyport Marine Society. 

United Rebekah Lodge No. 13. 

United Order of the Golden Cross, Riverside Commandery No. 52. 

School Children. 

Trades Division, 

Carriage Makers' Band, George N. Goodwin, leader. 

W. G. Fisher, commander. 

Route of Procession. 

The procession will form on Washington park, right resting at the foun- 
tain and promptly at 10 o'clock will march down State to Middle, down Middle 
to Fair, up Fair to Orange, to Milk, to Lime, down Lime, down Purchase, up 
Bromfield to High, up High to Green, to Washington, to Kent, down Kent to 
Merrimac, up Merrimac to Broad, up Broad to High, up High, countermarch at 
Forester, down High to Market, down Market to Pleasant, to State, down State to 
Market Square, where the procession will be dismissed. 




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J^iftietK Annivr CT arij 

ITuee^ai?, 3une 25. 

( Continued. ) 

Open Handicap Games. 

Newburyport Racing Association Park 
2 p. m. 

Only athletes registered in the Amateur Athletic Union may compete and the rules 

of the A. A. U. will govern. 

Officers of the Meet. 

Referee, F. M. Wood. 

Starter, I. S. Clark. 

Clerk of course, E. O. Shepard, jr, 

Timers, Dr. T. R. Healey, Lieut. G. W. Langdon, 
F. M. Wood. 

Judges at finish, F. M. Burke, Hugo Parton, 
A. M. Constantine. 

Field judges, J. R. Reddy, H. J. Downer, 
A. H. Berry, C. S. Currier. 

Marshal, O. H. Nelson. 

Assistant marshal, F. P. Woodbury. 

Announcer, F. W. Parsons. 

Assistant clerk of course, P. M. Osgood. 

, loo-yards dash, 220-yards dash, 440-yards dash, 880-yards run, 

One mile run, 120-yards high hurdles, Running high jump, 

Pole vault 

Special scratch event — loo-yards dash, 

for boys under 15 years of age. 

Prizes. 

Three Silver mounted Oaken Loving Cups of suitable 
grades for each event. 

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( Continued. ) 

FIREWORKS, 

Washington Park, 8 p. ni. 

1. Salute of three Aeriel Guns. 

Fired from mortars to the height of five hundred feet, and exploding 
with loud reports. 

2. Grand Illuminations. 

Twenty powerful colored lights changing from red to white, to blue. 

3. Fire Balloons. 

Two large balloons carrying magnesium lights, finishing with a string 
of jewels five hundred feet long constantly changing color as they 
float away. 

4. Rockets. 

One hundred and twenty-five i and 2 pound rockets fired from differ- 
ent points to blend. 

5. Bomb Shells. 

Four of the largest size. 

6. Batteries of Large Saucissons, 

giving effect of thousands of serpents in the air. 

7. Special Set piece, 

showing "Our Fiftieth Anniversary" — "1851-1901." 

8. Salvo of World's Fair Bomb Shells. 

Six 9-inch shells giving novel effects. 

9. Flight of Asteroid Rockets. 

Five rockets containing twin stars that float away on parachutes. 

10. Umbrellas of Fire. 

Six in ascent and descent. 

11. Special Device, "The Grove of Jeweled Palms." 

An elaborate arrangement of colored stars, columns and golden 
showers. 

12. Six large Mines of Stars and serpents. 

13. Salvo of Bomb Shells. 

Six 15-inch Shells giving Pain's Manhattan Beach electric effect. 

14. Four 6-poiind Ha-nging Chain Rockets. 

15. Eight Fountains, fired simultaneously. - 

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ON THE. BEACH — PLUM ISLAND. 




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PLUM ISLAND MARSHES. 




FIREWORKS. 

( Continued. ) 

i6. Special Device, "Aladdin's Jeweled Tree" 

showing a weeping willow tree in colored fire. 

17. Six "Devil-among-the-Tailors" fired simultaneously. 

18. Three 24-inch Shells of exceptional splendor. 

19. Six 4-pound Chromatic Star Rockets. 

20. Four 6-pouud Rockets, "The Pleiades". 

21. Six 3-pound Rockets. 

Opal showers. Laburnum blossoms, Evening stars. 

22. Two Repeating Shells, changing from red to white, to blue. 

23. Special Device, "The Star of Columbia", 

A brilliantly colored star surrounded b}- columns of golden fire. 

24. Twenty Large Cracker Mines. 

25. Salvo of six 15-inch Shells. 

Liquid fire, Cometic rain, Aladdin's jewels, etc. 

26. Special Set Piece, 

showing portrait of Caleb Cushing, first mayor of Newburyport. 

27. Three 8-pound Weeping Willow Rockets. 

28. Three 8-pound World's Fair Rockets. 

29. Three 8-pound Electric Rockets. 

30. Three 8-pound Peacock Plume Rockets. 

31. Three 8-pound National Streamer Rockets. 

32. Three 8-pound Magnesium vStar Rockets. 

33. Three 8-pound Prismatic Torrent Rockets. 

34. Special Set Piece, "Flowering Plant." 

35. Batteries of Twelve Large Colored Saucissons. 

36. Special Device, "Walking Elephant". 

37. Salvo of Three Pain 24-inch Manhattan Beach Bombs. 

Entirely new effects produced by the aid of electricity. 

38. Four 6-pound Rockets, with floating festoons of fireworks. 

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FIREWORKS. 

( Continued. ) 

39. The Golden Cloud. 

Studded with jewels, produced by the simultaneous discharge of six 
9-inch jewels. 

40. Battery of Italian Streamers. 

41. Battery of Electric Spreader Caudles. 

42. Battery of Pain's Chromatic Candles. 

43. Battery of Gold Showers. 

These batteries will be fired simultaneously. 

44. "Field of the Cloth of Gold." 

Produced by eight 9-inch bombs. 

45. Six 3-pound Congreve Rockets, with cometic stars. 

46. Special Device, "Flight of Twin Pigeons." 

47. "The Starry Flag." 

Produced by the simultaneous discharge o f three 13^ inch shells. 

48. Quintuple Repeating Bombs. 

Turquoises. Emeralds, Rubies, Amethysts, Pearls. 

49. "Mother of Thousands," 

A novelty giving six explosions each of different color. 

50. Special Set Piece, 

Portrait of the Mayor of Newbury port. 

51. Aerial Bouquet, of one hundred colored Rockets. 

52. Final Device, "Good Night," 

With columns of red, white and blue on either side. 




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Old Fashioned Firemen's Muster, 
Parade, lo a. m. 

Chief Marshal, Capt. William B. Porter. 

Route. 

Form on Pond street at Washington Monument, march down High to Brom- 
field, down Bromfield to Milk, through Milk, down Federal, up Water through 
Market Square, up State to Pleasant, through Pleasant to Green, up Green to 
playing ground. 

Prizes. 

First, ;?200, Second, ;fioo. Third, I75, Fourth, I25. 

Special Prize of ^25, to company coming longest distance. 

Judges. 

At stream — Fred A. Cheney, Haverhill, Captain Charles Grant, Somerville. 

At pipe — Captain Charles H. Hooper, Peabody, Eben S. Dole, Salisbury. 

At engine — Chief Bishop, Amesbury, Chief Cade, Wakefield. 

In charge of muster — Chief vS. C. Reed 

Time Keeper — C. S. Putnam. 



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By the courtesy of Hon. John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, at 
the request of Hon. WilHam H. Moody, the battleship Massachusetts, 
Capt. Henry N. Manney, will remain off Plum Island during Monday 
and Tuesday, the 24th and 25th, and, weather permitting, may be 
visited by the public. It is expected the search lights of the battle- 
ship will be displayed in the evening. 



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Nevvburyport for more than a century and a quarter was a part of New- 
bury. We observed our birthday with Newbury and West Newbury, the 
constituents of the old town, in 1835, and we usually date our origin from 
the incorporation of Newbury in 1635, or from the landing of the settlers 
a little earlier in the same year on the banks of the river Parker. But 
there is no doubt that "the white man's burden" was taken up wMthin the 
limits of Newburyport years before the permanent settlement was made in 
1635. Before any settlements of permanent immigrants were made in New 
England the codHshing of the Newfoundland banks and the fishery of this 
whole coast were sources of income to a great number of adventurous sea- 
farers from England and France. The English had stations on this coast 
on the shores of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, and one of 
these was doubtless Watts's cellar, near the police station, where a creek or 
indentation opened to the Merrimac. Our river swarmed with salmon and 
other fish according to the testimony of Capt. John Smith, and it is not im- 
probable that Watts's cellar existed before his visit, and that the fishing 
industry was carried on within our present city limits at the beginning of 
the seventeenth century. At all events there were white men engaged in 
industry at this station before the settlement on the banks of the Parker in 
1635. We know that before the survey and map made by John Smith in 
1614, the place was visited by Bartholomew Gosnold in i6o3, and Mrs. 
Smith says, by Martin Bring in 1603. 

Within eight years of the arrival of the Newbury settlers they had ex- 
tended their plantation into what is now the territory of Newburyport, and 
parliament having given promise of exempting from taxation imports and 
exports of New England, several merchants came over, and permanent 
settlement was begun on the Merrimac and here was the beginning of the 
division between the "water-side" people and the countrymen, which was 
to bring about a division into two towns in the next century and was to take 
still further from the old town and add to Newburyport and make it a city 
in the present century. It has been said of the Puritans who settled the 
Massachusetts Bay Colony that they came here for the purpose of worship- 
ing God according to the dictates of their own conscience and to catch fish. 
There were indeed many fishermen and traders by sea, but the majority 
were farmers, and the interests of the two classes were not identical, in fact, 
they often clashed, and they began to diverge very early. The water-side 
people were naturally more enterprising and progressive from the nature of 
their occupation, while the countrymen, as the agricultural classes every- 
where, were more conservative. The divergence of interests was sure to 
disturb the harmony of the town more and more, until in 1763, as Timothy 
Dexter wrote, "The larned growed strong" among the water-side people, 
and at the June session of the General Court two hundred and six of them 

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sent a petition headed by William Atkins, Daniel Farnham, Michael Dal- 
ton, Thomas Woodbridge and Patrick Tracy, praying that they might be 
set off from Newbury and incorporated as a town by themselves. They 
alleged as reasons, the jealousy between the two sections, the want of 
schools by the water-side, the want of fire engines, and they complained 
that they were unreasonably taxed, that there was no town treasurer, that 
they had not their proportion of selectmen, and that the town meetings were 
not held in the new Court house latel}' built at the water-side by the county 
and the people there. Dexter says "The farmers was 12 out of 20. Thay 
wanted to have the offesers in the contry. The larned in the seeport 
wanted to have them there, geering arose, growed warmer, fite they wood, 
in law they went the Jinrel cort to be set of." It had begun more than a 
hundred years before, and continued in other parts of Newbury for nearly 
ninety years after, and was natural and inevitable. 

In w^hat was left of Newbury after the incorporation of Newburyport as 
a town, the lack of harmonv was not so pronounced, but still it existed to a 
certain extent between the water-side people of Belleville and Joppa on the 
one hand and the country people on the other, so that the former were ready 
by 1850 to unite with the people of Newburyport and form a city govern- 
ment. The social relations were always pleasant, but diversity of town in- 
terests between countrymen engaged exclusively in agriculture and the 
merchants, traders and fishermen of the water-side made a separation inevi- 
table and desirable. 

At the time of the incorporation of Newburyport as a separate town in 
1764 the population of Newbury was second only to that of Boston in Mas- 
sachusetts. Commerce and the fisheries flourished and there was much 
wealth and culture among the people, and this flourishing condition lasted 
for half a century and had only begun to decline slightly when the great fire 
of 181 1 hastened the catastrophe. During the war privateering added to the 
wealth of many, and during this period Newburyport was noted for its po- 
lite society, the elegant entertainments and equipages of the wealthy, and 
for their culture and hospitality. In these respects it was not surpassed by 
any town in the thirteen colonies, as there is abundant evidence to substan- 
tiate. There were at one time forty livery stables in the town, while the 
rich merchants and professional men kept equipages beyond anything known 
in these days. It is said the daughter of one of the physicians returned her 
wedding calls in a stately carriage with six horses according to the fashion 
of the English nobility of that period. 

Moreover at the breaking out of the Revolution Newburyport was a pa- 
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relate an incident at the time of the excitement of the Britisli tax on tea sent 
to the colonies. She was born in a house at the foot of Unicorn street and 
could remember quite distinctly in i775? when she was a little girl, the burn- 
ing of small heaps of tea in the street not far from the meeting house, which 
was then in Market vSquare. 

On the organization of the Federal government in 1789, after the adop- 
tion of the Constitution of the United States, one of the two senators elected 
to first represent Massachusetts in the federal senate was Tristram Dalton 
of Newburyport, whose residence is occupied by a club which commemo- 
rates his name, and his fortune seemed to epitomize that of the town during 
his life. He was wealthy at the time of the organization of the federal gov- 
ernment, and he died poor in 181 7. Newburyport was a rich and prosper- 
ous town when he took his seat as senator and was stricken with decay and 
poverty at the time of his death. The fire of 181 1 and Jefferson's Embargo, 
combined with other general causes, which afiected Salem and Portsmouth 
in the same way as Newburyport, to transfer the commerce to Boston and 
New York. Many of the shipping merchants had their real business in 
Boston, and many of the younger ones removed themselves to that city and 
New York. The lowest point was reached at about the time of the great 
financial crash in 1837. Commerce had not ceased but had greatly declined, 
and the fisheries were still important, and there had been a feeble beginning 
of manufactures, but the aspect of the town was poverty stricken. There 
were six or eight rum distilleries in the town but little other manufacture 
until after this date, but before the grant of the city charter cotton factories 
had been established, and a fair beginning had been made in the change, 
from commerce to manufactures. From a very early period the Moulton 
family had made spoons and other silverware such as the growing wealth 
and luxury of the colonists demanded, and the art was kept alive by them to 
grow into the important silver manufacture of this country. Ship building, 
the necessary adjunct of commerce and fisheries, flourished here from the 
very earliest times, and though greatly declined, still survives and may as 
long as wooden ships are in demand. The Newburyport Railroad, after- 
wards absorbed by the Boston & Maine, was opened in May, 1850, one year 
before the granting the city charter, the Eastern Railroad having been ex- 
tended to this town in 1840, a final blow at its commerce, and a stimulus to 
manufacturing industi-y. 

The appropriations of the town of Newburyport for the five years pre- 
ceding the addition from Newbury and the adoption of the city charter aver- 
aged $25,000 annually, and at the March meeting of 1S51, the year of the 

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change, the appropriation made was $26,830, and in April $6,000 was added 
in view of the addition to territory and population. At the first meeting 
after the annexation act it was voted to apply to the legislature for a city 
charter, and a committee, consisting of Caleb Cushing, Henry W. Kinsman, 
Joseph Roberts, Enoch S. Williams, Joshua Hale, Samuel Phillips, Thomas 
Huse, Eben F. Stone, Henry Frothingham and Moses Davenport, was 
chosen to present the petition, which was granted in just one month from 
the date of the town meeting, the date of the act being May 24th. The ter- 
ritory of Newburvport had been increased by the incorporation from 647 
acres to upwards of 6,000 acres, and the population from 9,534 to 12,866, 
or sufficient to entitle the town to a city government. It also extended the 
river front from what is now Oakland street, then North street, to the Arti- 
choke river, and from South street, now Bromfield, to the Atlantic. The 
city charter was accepted on June 3d, 1851 by a vote of 484 to i 10, and di- 
rectly thereafter an election was held for city officers and Caleb Cushing 
with an able city council was elected the first mayor of the new city. The 
city government was organized with very simple ceremonial on June 24th. 
These dates are very easy to remember since on April 24th the town voted 
to apply for a city charter, on May 24th the act granting the petition is dated, 
and on June 24th the city government was organized. 

The name of the first mayor of this city suggests the fact that this com- 
munity has produced, or been the home of an unbroken succession of emi- 
nent men and women, from Thomas Parker probably the greatest scholar 
in Massachusetts to the living authors of today. Statesmen, orators, schol- 
ars, theologians, jurists, authors and merchants, too many to be mentioned 
in such a sketch as this which could be filled several times over with New- 
buryport celebrities from Appelton's Dictionary of American Biography. 
It was a town of culture and of men of ability from the first, and the city 
has not lost this characteristic. 

Mr. Cushing served as mayor for the year 1851 and a part of 1852, when 
he resigned before the end of his term, and Henry Johnson, a merchant 
of an old Newburyport family, was chosen to fill the vacancy, and was 
reelected to serve in 1853. At this time the valuation was but little more 
than half what it is at the present time while the population was only a little 
over two thousand less than it was at the recent United States census. 

Moses Davenport was elected mayor for 1854 and was reelected for the 
next year. The first year of Mr. Davenport's service in the office was some- 
what of an epoch in the history of the city as there were several notable 
events occurred in that year. The glorious Fourth of July was celebrated 
with a pomp and splendor which had been unknown for a long time, if it 
had ever been equalled. The absent sons and daughters of the old town 
were invited to grace the occasion with their presence, and many of them 
responded to the invitation. The day was one of the hottest ever known, 
and it seemed as if the sun had joined with us to make the occasion splendid, 
if not comfortable. One fine feature of the occasion was a floral procession 
in which there was a barge drawn by six horses, loaded with beautiful 
flowers and more beautiful girls, whose names I dare not record, since the 
young ladies of forty-seven years ago are no longer displaving the first bloom 
of youthful beauty. But it mav be told that there were as many of them as 
tliere were states of the Union at that time, and that each girl represented a 
state. The houses on the route of the procession were decorated appropri- 
ateh' or the festive occasion, and as there was no public water supply at 

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that time the heat and dust made welcome to the procession the iced lemon- 
ade which was furnished by some of the dwellers along the route. 

Another important event of the year 1854 was the establishment of thv 
Five Cent .Savings Bank with Joseph B. Morse as its first president. 

A still more important matter of the same year was the founding of the 
Public Library by Josiah Little, who gave $5,000 for the purpose, and by 
Charles Jackson and Samuel Swett of Boston who gav^e largely of books 
and money. The committee which selected the first books purchased was 
Moses Davenport, Leonard Withington, Luther F. Dimmick, Daniel T. 
Fiske and Nathaniel Hills, of whom Rev. Dr. Fiske is the only survivor. 
In 1865 the public library, which had been kept open at City Hall was re- 
moved to the present building, which had been purchased by subscriptions 
through the instrumentality of Edward S. Moseley. In 1867 George Pea- 
body gave a fund of $15,000 the income to be expended in the purchase of 
books. Other donations have been made the larger of which are $10,000 
bequeathed by William O. Moseley, $20,000 given by John R. Spring of 
San Francisco, Cal., $5,000 bequeathed by Edward S. Moseley; $4,000 by 
will of Abram Cutter of Boston, and $10,000 under the will of Mrs. Eliza- 
beth H. Sticknev of Chicago. Of the bequests several are subject to life 
interest and are not yet available. The Simpson Annex, to which Michael 
H. Simpson of Boston made the principal contribution, $18,500, was dedi- 
cated in April, 1S82. The Reading Room, connected with the Public Li- 
brary was established by the liberality of William C. Todd of Atkinson, N. 
H., who has given to it in all $15,000. It was one of the first, if not the 
first of its kind, where newspapers and magazines of England and America 
are accessible to the public. 

William Cushing was mayor in 1856-7-8, and Albert Currier, the oldest 
surviving mayor, in 1859-60. Moses Davenport was elected mayor for 1861, 
the year which saw the beginning of the civil war, but died during his term 
of office, and the vacancy was filled by the choice of George W. Jackman, 
the alderman from ward six. Mr. Jackman was the war mayor of New- 
buryport, for although Isaac W. Boardman was mayor in 1863, the darkest 
period of the war, he served only one year and Mr. Jackman was returned 
to the office in 1864 and 1865. He was a Democrat, but most of the Demo- 
crats were patriots in those evil days, and he served the cause of the Union 
in his sphere. 

These years from 1855 to 1861 were not very prosperous for Newbury- 
port as they were not lor the country at large, for they included the great 
financial disaster of 1857. Nor was there much of interesting local history, 
though we shared with the Know Nothing breakup of the Whig party, and 
the excitement about Kansas and Nebraska and John Brown's raid. The 
Angel Gabriel gathered a big crowd on Brown's Square and smaller crowds 
on the wharves, and one who professed to be an Indian doctor a hundred 
and nobody knows how many years old drew in a pile of dollars from the 
credulous part of the communitv who preferred an ignorant and in fact a 
dirty quack to an educated physician. 

But if there was little of interest at this period there was more than 
enough during the four years beginning with 1861, though it was very sim- 
ilar to that of every community throughout the northern states of our coun- 
try. The firing upon Fort Sumter and its surrender came like a thunder 
bolt out of a clear sky to everyone but the very few who had lived at the 
South recently and knew the temper of its people. The call of the presi- 

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dent for troops and the prompt response of Newburyport are still subjects 
of local pride. We claimed to be the very first, and we were certainly 
among the first, when Capt. A. VV. Bartlett with his company went up 
State street on that April morning to take the train and report for duty more 
dangerous even than they expected, though that danger disappeared for a 
while before the promptness of the citizen soldiery to respond to the sum- 
mons. 

The public feeling of that time was something that can hardly be imag- 
ined in our calmer days by those who did not witness it. The recent Span- 
ish war caused a ripple compared with the mountainous billows of patriotic 
enthusiasm which swept the country in the spring of 1861. The oldest and 
sedatest were as much stirred as the youth, and, strangely enough, it was 
almost universal. There were very few Southern sympathizers after Sum- 
ter and there was but one party, the party of the Union. The funeral ser- 
vice of the first Newburyport soldier killed in the war, a private of very 
humble family, was held in the Pleasant street meeting house and was at- 
tended by a greater concourse and with more solemnity than that of Presi- 
dent Harrison at the Prospect street meeting house twenty years before. 

There was one alleviation, however, to the war. Business revived and 
continued good for several years after its close. Many enterprises were 
founded at this time, a large part of which failed when the contraction came 
and the payment for the game had to be made. Many, however, survive 
and flourish to the present. N. D. Dodge's shoe industry was established 
the year after the war ended, and E. P. Dodge's the year after his brother, 
and since that time the outward evidences of prosperity, the appearance of 
the streets and buildings have made a very marked advance, a greater ad- 
vance even than that made from 1S37 ^^ 1861. The Bayley Hat Company 
h*d been established in 1S63, the Hope Mills was founded by A. F. Ross 
& Co., in 1S67, and A. F. Towle, who had manufactured silverware since 
1S55, in 1S70 formed the A. F. Towle & Son Com- 
pany, which was the germ of the Towle Manufact- 
uring Company in 1880, now a well established 
and prosperous industry known throughout the 
country. 

The Putnam Free School, founded by a bequest 
from Oliver Putnam, was opened in the present 
building in 1S48. The Brown High School and 
the Female High School had also been established 
before the adoption of the city charter, the latter 
having been one of the first high schools for girls 
of any public free school in the country. By an 
agreement between the city and the Putnam trus- 
tees dated Oct. 9th, 1885, these three schools were 

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were consolidated on terms which are to be found in the Municipal register. 
The schools of Newburyport have been good from the first, and one of the 
causes of the separation from Newbury in 1764 alleged by the petitioners 
was the desire for better schools. 

In i'S73 by will of William Wheelwright a fund was left which, in 1900, 
amounted to $415,000, for establishing a scientific school for Newburyport 
boys, from the income of which a considerable number of youth have each 
year been educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

The Newburyport Gas Company was incorporated the year before the 
adoption of the city charter, and the directors were all Boston men. Re- 
cently since the extension of the use of electricity it has been reorganized as 
the Newburyport Gas and Electric Company and is controlled by men of 
this city. 

The Newburyport Water Company was incorporated in 18S0, but before 
that, as early as 1S73, the question of a public water supply was agitated. 
Such sources as wells in common pasture, the Artichoke and Merrimack 
rivers and the Jackman Springs, finally adopted, were proposed, and the 
Holly system was ably advocated by Mr. Richardson, a former resident 
here and by prominent citizens. There was also a lively discussion as to 
whether the waterworks should be built by the city or by a company, and it 
was decided by a considerable majority vote that it should be by a company, 
and Mr. George H. Norman formed the company and constructed the 
works. But as the present condition of the water question is still strongly 
agitating city politics the less said in such a sketch as this upon the matter, 
the better. 

Street railways began in Newburyport with the building of the line to 
Amesbury in 1S72, and we were accustomed to speak of "the horse cars", 
until in 18S7 the electric power works were constructed, and at present we 
can travel to Rhode Island, Worcester, Lowell, Exeter and nearly all the 
nearer towns by electric cars run at a speed which would incur a fine if a 
private person, even the president of a railway company should drive so fast. 

In 1885 the old town of Newbury, combining Newburyport and West 
Newbury celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the settle- 






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ment on the river Parker. There was a vast gathering v^'ith appropriate 
ceremonies, an oration and a poem, a procession and a dinner with speeches 
by distinguished citizens and guests, and in the evening a reunion at City 
Hall, with old portraits and ancient family relics on display. 

In such a sketch as this only brief mention can be made of points which 
have to be selected, since a mere index or catalogue of topics of a history 
would fill the entire space allotted, so that very many things have been i 
omitted both important and interesting which might have been introduced if 
the prescribed limits would admit. I have given what may seem to some 
an undue proportion of the paper to matters previous to the citv history, but 
this will be seen on reflection to be appropriate. The occasion is the semi- 
centennial celebration of the adoption of the city charter, and the causes 
which led to two separations of territory and population from Newburv in 
1764 and 1 85 1, are the very occasion and groundwork of our celebration, 
and could by no means be omitted from such a paper as this. It is not a 
history or an attempt at a history, but a sketch of the origin of Newbury- 
port as a city and its progress since. Keeping this in mind it will not ap- 
pear so lacking in completeness as it would be by the more exacting stand- 
ard. 

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FROM TOWN TO CITY. 



The last annual meeting of the town of Newburyport was held on 
March i8, 1851. It had been called by the selectmen, Nathaniel Horton, 
Henry Johnson, Thomas Davis, Albert Currier and Robert Bayley, Jr. 
Philip K. Hills, Esq., presided over its rather stormy sessions. It would be 
difficult to find in the history of Newburyport for 100 years a more impor- 
tant meeting than was this one. Called to meet in Market hall it was ad- 
journed in the afternoon session to the new town hall (City hall) just com- 
pleted at an expense of $12.50 less than the appropriation for it of $30,000. 

One of the acts of this town meeting was the appointing of a committee 
of three consisting of Philip K. Hills, Isaac H. Boardman, and Richard 
Fowler to represent the interests of the town before the legislature having 
under consideration "the annexation to Newburyport of those parts of the 
town of Newbury specified in the petition to the legislature of William 
Goodwin and others and Moses Pettingell and others." Previously numer- 
ous attempts at annexation of Joppa and Belleville had been made, and it is 
doubtful if this movement would have been successful had not the accept- 
ance of the act by the citizens of the two towns been omitted in the bill. 

The people were patriotic in those days and, although the total appro- 
priations amounted to but $26,000, of that amount $600 was set aside for 
celebrating July 4th. This contrasts with our $185,000 appropriations of 
this year, of which $2250 is for the observing of the golden anniversary of 
the city. 

Another important event in this meeting, and especially so in the light 
of history, was the request of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, then a resi- 
dent of Newbury, to address the meeting in favor of devoting one ot the 
rooms in the new town hall to the uses of a public library. On this subject 
the Daily Evening Union says: "An animated debate occurred upon this 
question, and upon the question of permitting Mr. Higginson of Newbury 
to make a few remarks a very exciting scene occurred. It was decided at 
last (by polling the house) that he should be permitted to speak. Where- 
upon confusion worse confounded ensued — many of those opposed leaving 
the hall. We must confess our surprise at the excitement manifested by 
certain gentlemen who have lived long enough to have arrived at years ot 
discretion." There is little doubt from what the Union says in later num- 
bers that the reason Colonel Higginson (he was then Rev. Mr. Higginson) 
received such treatment from the elderly and respected citizens of Newbury- 
port, was because of his abolitionist attitude on the slavery question. 

The act annexing those portions of Newbury known as Joppa and Belle- 
ville to Newburyport wasapproved on April 17th, 1851. One week later a 
special town meeting of the enlarged town was held and Hon. Henry W. 
Kinsman as moderator welcomed the new citizens of Newburyport. Moses 
Pettingell, Esq., responded on behalf of the former residents of Newbury. 

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At this meeting it was voted to apply for a city charter and Caleb Gushing, 
Henry W. Kinsman, JosejDh Roberts, E. S. Williams, Joshua Hale, Samuel 
Phillips, Thomas Huse, Eben F. Stone, Henry Frothingham and Moses 
Davenport were appointed to present the petition to the legislature. Caleb 
Cushing was in the legislature at the time and after the form of the charter 
had been decided upon the late Colonel Stone sat up all night to get a draft 
of it in such a shape that General Cushing could present it the following 
day, the last day for new business in the House of Representatives. This 
act was approved on May 24th, by Governor Boutwell, and on June 3d, by a 
vote of 4S4 to no, the charter was adopted by the citizens of Newburyport. 

This vote was the culmination of the preliminary steps to electing Gen- 
eral Cushing to the office of mayor. Friends of his directed the whole 
movement of enlarging the town and adopting the charter. Mr. Cushing, 
himself, lent great aid in the drafting of the charter and its passage by the 
legislature. 

The election of the first city government took place on June 17th and no 
records are in existence showing how the votes stood. Mr. Cushing re- 
ceived practically the unanimous vote. There were contests in some of the 
wards and the papers report that Thomas Huse, the first alderman from 
ward one, was elected by one vote, although omitting to mention the vote or 
who the other contestants were. 

The inauguration of the first city government took place, it is almost 
superfluous to say, on June 24th, 1851. The mayor and aldermen came to- 
gether in the present aldermanic chamber and the common council organ- 
ized in the temporarily arranged chamber up-stairs in the main hall. Eben 
F. Stone was chosen president by a vote of 9 to S for Philip Johnson, and 
Edward Burrill was elected clerk of the council, although one of the mem- 
bers believed a salary could be saved by electing one of the councilmen to 
that office. Jacob Horton was so elected and declined, after which Mr. 
Burrill was chosen. 

Mr. Cushing delivered his inaugural address which dealt in a philosoph- 
ical and historical way with the subject of municipal government, and the 
city of Newburyport started on its journey of life. 

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In the preceding pages an outline of the history of Xewburvport has 
been given, and some details of the formation of its first city government, 
the event which we now celebrate. Let it not be thought because of the 
predominance of this matter that we rest upon the record; it is but the 
prelude of the story that will yet be told. Newburyport has a glorious 
past, but it has also the potentials of a more glorious future that will keep 
with growing lustre the name our first half century and its background of 
more than two hundred years has made. 

It is a city of natural and achieved advantages; of intelligence and 
hospitality; of dignity and beauty. The present generation has seen it 
transformed from a centre of maritime commerce and its allied industries 
to one of manufactories. The loss of the former is due to the natural law 
of centralization, and if for no other reason, this celebration would be 
justified by the accomplishment of the latter. Old traditions have passed 
away — new ones are formed and forming; and during this Newburyport 
has gained in size, has increased in wealth, and has provided all the modern 
improvements that contribute to comfort and progress. Within the 
memory of those still young it has supplied water, sewers, pavements, 
street cars, electric lights and parks. Its railroads and postal facilities are 
of the best, and the Merrimac River, the inalienable gateway of commerce, 
has been deepened and improved, that, though no longer paramount, it 
may remain an enviable resource. 

While thus prepared to meet all the requirements of municipal devel- 
opment and increase, Newburyport offers also undeniable attractions for 
those who seek pleasure and relaxation either primarily or as an adjunct 
to business life. On the country side no more beautiful or prosperous 
farming land can be found than that of Newbury, West Newbury, and 
beyond. By the waterside are Salisbury Beach, Black Rocks, Plum 
Island, with its hotel that has been a summer resort for a hundred years, 
and the beautiful Plum Island River, winding and reaching almost to the 
confusion of compass, then broadening like a lake, with Grape Island and 
Ipswich Bluffs on the farther shore. The historic Parker River has its 
own recent colony in renewed appreciation of the selection of our fore- 
fathers, and it furnishes also a pleasant route to the resorts of lower Plum 
Island. 

Newburyport is the centre of a system of electric railroads including 
upward of sixtv miles of tracks, of which the natinal termini are Hampton 
Beach, Rye Beach, Portsmouth, Exeter, Amesbury, Haverhill, George- 
town, Rowley and Ipswich. In the season more than two hundred regu- 
lar trips are run daily from Market Square to a score of points along these 
lines. For summer sojourn by the ocean or an occasion;il trip they offer 
unsurpassed facilities, intrinsically gratifying. 

Newburyport is rich in funds for charitable and educational purposes, 
for the latter especially offering unusual advantages. It remains only tor 
her people to unite for her prosperity, to exert personal influence for each 
other and for the stranger who comes here or who would come here for 
business or for residence. Let this celebration be the means of dissemina- 
ting a Neivburyport idea that shall stand solidly for local patriotism and 
progress. 

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THE 

/T\erel7a9ts l^fatio^al Bai^l^, 

flEWBURYPORT, MASS. 

p. H- BLiUMPEY, President. WM. lUSbEY, Cashier. 

Capital, $120,000. 

Surplus and Profits, $47,706 58. 
Loans, $329,011.47. 

Deposits, $289,539.67. 

(As last reported to the Comptroller of Currency.) 

Dl^HGTORS: 
PHILIP H. BLUMPEY. WM. E. CHASE. 

WM. R. JOHNSON. L. B. GUSHING. 

JOHN N. GUSHING. WM. ILSLEY. 

t^* %p^ t^* 

DISCOUNT DAILY. 

t^* (^'W ^^ 

Checks drawn on all parts of the world; also Travelers' Checks for use in 

foreign countries or the United States. 

Prompt and careful attention given to the interests of customers. 

o?* e^ <<^ 

ACCOUNTS SOLICITED. 

Telephone 13 — 3. 
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Ibotel Cusbina. 

Connected by Telephone^ aJ ^ Tames McConnelU Mgf. 

Salisbury Beach, Mass* 

]£uropean plan. 

Rooms $1 per day and upward* 

special Rates by the week and to parties. 

Bintiuj IRoom ifactuG tbe ©cean J- ^ 

J- J- Sea jfooC) a Specialty 

Vaudeville Shows, Music and other attractions daily. Dance Hall 

for private parties. 



THE 



prapK Joi^es 



Breu;i9(^ ^onpany 



LIMITED. 



^^e^Brewers and Maltsters,^^-^.^ 

sr Market Street, Portsmouth, N. H. 

R. M. PERLEY, 

Agent for Newburyport and vicinity. 

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fi» f$/» ff/»ff/»f$/» cf/» f$» f\t» 

GO TO 



John H. 
Balch, Jr. 



^liazzr 



KOAIv 



Schuylkill 
Shamokin 



Wilkesbarre 
Franklin 



and Lehigh in all sizes. 

AGENT FOR ^Jt 

OTTO COKE & BUNDLED KINDLINGS 

47 WATKR STREET 
N e 'A^t) u. r y p o rt 

rf/* ff/» f>t» eNf»fNt» ff» €$/» fNV» 



Cafe Plumer 

28 State St. 

For all kinds of Refreshments 

MRS. L. DEAN, Prop, 
fst* ff» f^t• cw»cf/»fvf/» 9$y ff/» 




rf/* cf/^ ff/»ft/»fNf* f^ cf/* ff/» 



ESTABLISHED 1870 


The best the world produces in 


.^ 


MEN'S APPAREL. 


C. E. CURRIER &L SON, 


Shall we clothe you ? 


Carpenters and Builders 


^^ 


^ 


STEVENS BROS., 


Jobbing of all kinds pronnptly done 


The Progressive Clothiers, 




32 Pleasant St. 




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3fiftietK AnnttyeTgarij 

Robert ]. McKinney, 





OUR MOTTO: 

Honest and Serviceable. 

Boys, Youths 
and Little Gents. 



£stabi/s/tecf 
/760. 

• 

Wtiiiam TT/ouiion, 

TlJatches, St'/uertvare and ^otveiryj 

40 State Street, 

Vfotvburi/port, 



Undertaker 
and Embalmer. 

Warerooms, 5 Market Sq. 

Residence, 24 Spring St. 

Telephone : Residencet J3I-I3. 
Warerooms, 125-3. 



WflRNINQToYI5lT0R5 

Be sure you go to the 

New York Liquor 



Store, 



FOR 



RED FOX ALE 



For they are Sole Agents 
in the city. 

<^ 

FINEST LINE OF WET GOODS IN 
NEWBURYPORT. 

JERE DINEEN, Prop. 

28 Merrimac Street. 



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(tittj of J^etoburijpoTt 
F. E. CUTTER & CO., 

House Painters and Dealers in Painters' Supplies, Glass, Doors, 

Windows and Blinds. Room Papers in the Latest Designs. 

Paper Hanging, Graining, Glazing and Gilding. 



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We carry in stock a 

FULL LINE 

of the 

HEATH IMILUGAN 

BEST 
PREPARED PAINTS 




> » < * 



LOOKS BEST . . 

COVERS MOST . . 

WEARS THE 

LONGEST. 

(^% fc^ ^* 

Call for Sample 

Color Card. 

■ X - C°C< «' 



46=48 rierrimac St., Newburyport 



Telephone, 107-7 



^ T. GLYNN & CO., ^ 



Wbolesaik Liquor Deailers. 



Bottlers ofl. 



P. B. file, CreMD Ale \i)i Porter; P^b^t 

A\ilw^uKee \r}i A. B. (. 

L^ger Beer5. 



IMCaiifa,etvirei*s of.. 



Ginger Ale, Tonic, etc. 



Also 



T^idK Soi\. 



OS & TO Water, S Federal Sts., Neveburyport, Miass. 

Telephone 124-4. 

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3fiftietK Autxt\?eT0aTtj 

The Georgetown, RoAvley 




Aivr> 



Ipswich Street Railway. 



^^w ^^v ^?* 



MODERN CARS. 

HEAVY RAILS 



f^f ^% ^^i 

THE DIRECT LINE FROM 



Haverhill, Georgetown, Rowley, 
Ipswich and Byfield 

TO THE CELBBE/-A.TIOiT. 



^^ ^^ ^^ 



Connects at Newburyport with Cars 
for all the Beaches. 



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City of Newburuport 




IRewburpport Gas d 
Blectric Co. 

53 state St- 

The Newbuiyport Gas and Electric Co. 
liave for sale at their office some fine samples of 

UmproveD 
(3as Stoves 

and . . 

Cool?tnG IRauQCS 

•which they are selling at cost to their customers. 
Call at their office anil examine the stoves. ~a 



\§i'J&i'. 



2). JD. Uiltor, Ureas. 



4^c/. Jem 



jCii 



iveri/ 



!/3oarclin£f Stable, 

Herinan S. Stevens 

Has them all beat. 



Hats and Men's Furnishings. 
Bicycles and Sundries. 



Hunt till you find him. 

26 Pleasant Street. 

P. H. KIMBALL, 

Watchmaker and deu/eler 

69 State St., 
Newburyport. 



donle^ d flDannii 



^^ ^3* ^^ 



t> 



barmacists ?^ 



^^^ 6^' t^^ 



18 State Street 



4v 



"i 



Historical and Biographical 
Slcetches by 



Octavo; 730 pages, with over one 
hundred illustrations. 

Price, $5.00 in cloth; 
$6 in half morocco. 

For sale by Damrell & Upham, Boston, 
Qeorge H. Pearson, Charles W. 
Bailey and John J. Currier, New- 
buryport. 

''I am still on deck." 

When in want of 

Ranges, Stoves or 
Furnaces, 

Call at our 

ISTEVT- STORE, 
120 1S/[BFIR,I]S/3:A.C ST. 

"NORTH END" STOVE STORE- 

J. G. MULDOON. 

I guarantee all work I do. 



OSGOOD & GOODWIN 



IS THE 



Reliaible Linen Store. 



59 State Street. 



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3PiftietK Antvttyersarij 
McGLEW BROS. CO. 




^ dt Carriage Builders. 



HALES COURT. 

H. E. ricQIew, Prop. 



J. C. LUNT CO., 

Furnishing 

Undertakers. 

Residence, = 20 Broad Street 

Warerooms, 212 nerrimac St. 

Telephone 108=4. 

DAY OR NIGHT CALLS 

PkOHPTLY ANSWERED. 

JOHM(}RAHAM5gOM 

iFirst Class riDavhct 

Everything^ in the Meat Line. 



Thompson's 

pboto StuMo 

Cor- State an^ ipleasant Sts- 



26 Harket Sq. 

NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 
EBEN BRADBURY, 

Registered Pharmacist. 



Dor. State and Pleasant Streets, 
Newburyport, Mass. 



All the leading styles finished 
in the most artistic manner. 

A large collection of views of 
local scenery on sale at Pearson's 
Fancy Goods Store, 35 State St. 

dc jCiveri/ Stables 

Connected i)y Telephone. (tpcn all ni^lit. 

32 INN ST., Newburyport. 

Satisfaction Guaranteed. 

Lu(y P. Nelson, 

Successor to N. B. Lake. 

A\lLLiNERY iiod DRY QOODS. 

12 State St., 

NEWBURYPORT. MASS. 



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[CI 



Citij of ^etpburypoTt 



Ocean National Bank 

No. 51 State Street. 

^ ^ ^ 

Chartered as a State Bank = = 1833. 
Organized as a National Bank = 1865. 

^ ^ ^ 

Capital, = $150,000. 

SUI^PbdS A|SID PROFITS, - $45,000. 

fe^ «^ ^a^ 

MOSES H. FOWLER, President. 

F. 0. WOODS, Cashier. 

E. G. WOOD WELL, Assistant Cashier. 
A. W. THURLOW, Bookkeeper. 

GEO. E. COOPER, Clerk. 

HAROLD W. SMITH, Messenger 

%^ «^ «^ 

DIRECTORS: 

MOSES H. FOWLER. LE ROY BERRY. 

SAMUEL MARCH. ELISHA P. DODGE. 

WILLIAM A. JOHNSON. HENRY B. LITTLE. 

FRANK F. MORRILL. CHARLES W. MOSELEY. 

WILLIAM R. USHER. DANIEL S. BURLEY. 

ALBERT P. .SAWYER. JOHN H. BALCH, Jr. 

Accounts Solicited. Discounts Daily. 

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" LIKE THE VIOLIN 




The Wm. Bourne & Son Piano 
Improves with Use. 

These pianos are constructed on scientific 
principles, and the tone quality improves from 
year to year. The longer you use a Bourne 
Piano the more it will please you. If you would 
own a piano with 

ENTRANCING TONE QUALITY, 

the sonorous kind that permeates every nools 
and corner of your domicile, in a beauliful 
figured wood and hantl-carved case, the Bourne 
will please you. 

Our prices are very reasonable and we sell 
on easy payments if you please. Old Instru- 
ments exchanged. 

Fred W. Peabody, 

16 MAIN STREET, AMESBURY. 
Haverhill. Boston. 



TO encourage and help along the 
Grand Celebration of the Fiftieth 
Anniver.'^ary of our city, T. O'Con- 
nell pays for this space, and also to 
say to the Public that O'Connell at 
the same time Celebrates the Thirty- 
Fifth Anniversary of his Business in 
the Dry and Fancy Goods, by his 
offering such Rare Bargains as perhaps 
have never before been offered in this 
city. Upon this grand occasion we 
tender a most hearty welcome to every- 
body, young and old, who visits our 
store, 57 State Street, and after pur- 
chasing receive some little token of 
our gratitude proportionate to the 
purchase. Very respectfully. 



Berry^ Dodge & Co. 

Manufacturers of and Dealers in 

High Grade Teas, Coffees, 
Spices, Cream Tar- 
tar, etc. 



STRICTLY WHOLESALE. 



T. O'CONNELL. 



19 MARKET SQUARE. 

Telephone Connection, 133-4. 

Thie Old House 
of 

S. Levy & Son, 

Alive to the Progressive Spirit of the Age. 
ESTABLISHED 1855 

(Hil residents of the city have long been 
acquainted with the Pry & Fancv Goods 
House of S. Levy & Son, and that it for years 
has held a very conservative position— wliich 
has been both honorable and dignified. They 
are the original introducers of a department de- 
voted exclusively to toadies', Misses' and Child, 
ren's Outside Garments, and for the present 
season they are presenting for the inspection of 
their patrons the most extensive and best assort- 
ed Stocli of TAILOK MADE SUITS, CLOAKS and 

SKIUTS in the city. They guarantee that when 
the quality of goods is considered they cannot 
be undersold. 

S. LEVY &. SON, 30-32 State St. 

Three Entire Floors. 



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^ €itv) of ^^etpburjjpoTi 




1844 lOOl. 



PHILIP H. BLUMPEY, 



DEHLER IN 



Mm Sxomm. 



1 






THE BEST BOODS BP THE LOWEST PBICE. 

You can always depend on getting 
nice articles at a fair price. 



%^^ ^r^ 4^^ 



THE OLD STAND, 

Cor. Temple & State Streets, 



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FIRST NATIONAL BANK. 

16 State Street; Newburyport. 

ORGANIZED FEBRUARY, 1864. 

Capital, . . $15o,ooo 

SURPLUS, - - - $50,000. 

President, EUWAUD P. SHAW. 

Cashier, W. F. HOUSTON, 

Teller, WILLIAM H. WELCH, 

Bookkeepers, HENRY S. BROWN, MYRON R. CURRIER, 

Messenger, C. J. O'CONNELL 

«^ 

directors: 

L. D. COLE, FRED L,. ATKINSON, W. HERBERT NOYES, 

GEO. W. PIPER, W. F. HOUSTON, AVILLIARD J. HALE, 

EDWARD P. SHAW, EDWARD F. LITTLE, JOHN P. STEVENS. 

Accounts of Corporations. Firms and Individuals Solicited upon the most liberal 
terms consistent with good Banking. 

Telephone 32-2. 

71 





H. W. PRAY & GO. 




When in the city, drop in and see me. 



C, F. CREEDEN. 

Ales, Wines, Liquors and Cigars. 

Bay State 

Bottling CompaiT-y. 

Nos. 30 to 38 Merrimac St. 
Dealers in 

CHOICE : 

Wines, Ales, 
Beer, Liquors and 
Carbonated Beverages. 

Our Carbonated Goods are made 
from the finest and purest extracts and 
distilled water. 

We put up, in five-gallon carboys, 
distilled water for family use. 

We manufacture tlie finest Ginger 
Ales in the country. 

Ba3^ State 
Bottling Connpany, 

Nos. 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38 Merrimac St._ 
NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 



The leading Hosiery and 

Underwear house of 

Newburyport. 

EMBROIDERY 

A Specialty. 

Linings, Wrappers, Corsets, 

Small Wares and 

Yarn 

of all kinds. 

Always the best qoalities. 
Always the lowest prices. 

27 State St., Newburyport, Mass. 



1863 



1901 




CHEAP 



U CASH STORE. 

All Goods Delivered Free in City 



March's Best Pat. 

FLOUR. 

None Better IVIade. 
TRY IT. 



High Grade 

Tea and Coffee. 

13 Market Sqr. 

Telephone con. J. L. Browu. 



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^C jfiftietK Anm\TeT0aTij j^ 



. . Established 1867 . . 

Manufacturers of Shoes, 

1Klcwbur\)poyt, nDa00. 

stores : 
179 Xtncoln Street, Boston. 
200 Cburch Street, IRew ^ov\\. 



. , Brewster S^ros . . 

yncfurancoj 

76 Siato Street, 

7fewburi/port, 97/ass, 



Ssiablisheet /S52. 



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Cityof Ne w b uruD T t 




ISOLATED ELECTRIC LIGHTING PLANTS. 
PRIVATE TELEPHONES. ELECTRIC BELL WORK. 



mi. 




COPTRICMT 



J. J. Merrill, 

Electrician. 



Sslesroom and Office 

71 1-2 STATE STREET, NEWBURYPORT. 

Our watchword has 
ever been 

"J^ot how cheap 

but how good. " 

In our orrocerv de- 
partment we have the 
best goods money will 
buy, and we carry the 
largest and best as- 
sortment of Wines and 
Liquors east of Boston. 

D, A* Goodwin, Jr* 

Cor. Purchase and Lime Sts,, Newburyport 

TELEPHONE 2!-2. 



Victor iQaoufacturiDQ Go. 



57 and 59 Water St. 

NEWBURYPORT, 



MASS. 



Tinned Fireproof Doors and 
Shutters, and Standard Hard- 
ware with or without Heat- 
Closing Devices. 

Barn and Warehouse Door Hangers and 
Track. 

VICTOR ROOFING CEMENT. 

Many of the largest manufac- 
turing plants in the country are 
fitted with devices of our man- 
ufacture. 

Send for Catalogue and References. 

. . KNOTTYIPROBLEMS SOLVED . . 



CASHMAN BROS. 

Stevedores 
Contractors 



Teamsters 



NEWBURYPORT. 



TELEPHONE CONNECTION. 



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^ J^iftietK Anntt?eT0artr 




e:stabi^i©iiei> isr^. 



J. J. & v/. w^ooos, 

Wholesale and Retail Dealers in 

(BrocerieS; i Bles, Mines 
{provisions T sf ILiquors. 

AND COUNTRY PRODUCE. Special Attention given to Bottling. 

PARTICULAR ATTENTION GIVEN TO PUTTING UP YACHT STORES. 
Earthen, Wooden, Crockery and Glass Ware. 

Ageuts for Eldredge's Portsmouth, N. H., Celebrated Ales, Porter and Lager. 



SJ dt S5 Water Streetf Tfewburj/port, TTfass, 



Atkinson Coal Company 



WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 



t(?* t^^ <^^ 



25 W^ATER Street, 

NEWBURYPORT. 



Telephone 6-2. 

75 




City of NewburMuort 



JV. J'owler. 



*Deaier in Choice 



J^lour^ 



^oast 



Coffees^ 
!^utter 



and 



J'ine Sroceries* 

/2S2 T^errimac tSt., 
Vfetvburt/pori, 

CLOTHING 

ON 

CREDIT 

We are prepared to show a full line 
of Ladies', Gents' and Children's Gar- 
ments. We can clothe your entire 
family with a small payment down and 
balance in weekly payments. Every 
honest person should avail themselves 
of this opportunity of obtaining good 
ready-to-wear clothing on credit at the 

NEW YORK 
CREDIT CO. 



48 State St. 



Up one flight. 



Open evenings. 




Buy your Footwear at 

BARTON'S, 

U state St. 

Always the larsest assortment of up- 
to-date shoes. The best Men's and 
Women's $2.00 shoe on earth. 

Sole acent for Newbnryport for the 
Ladies' Sorosis Shoes. They are the best 
Women's Shoe in the woi-ld. 

RADTHM'^ DOUBLE DECKER 
l->/\l^ 1 \Ji^ ^ ,, state Street. 



E.W.PEARSON 



LEADING FLORIST 



CUT FLOWERS ALWAYS ON 
HAND 



FUNERAL DESIGNS A SPECIALTY 



POTTED PLANTS 



TELEPHONE CONNECTION 



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Exeter, Hampton and Amesbury 
Street Railway Co. 



New Hampshire Shore Line 

Heavy Rails 
Modern Cars 
Courteous Treatment 



CONNECTS 



HAMPTON BEACH 



With the outside world. 



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(Hittj of Netoburyp ott 




ROYAL LAUNDRY. 

Family Washing, 50c per basket. 

Shirts, Collars and Cuffs 

a Specialty. 

J. J. Rourke, Prop., '« ^.''ZlVy/or'r' 



GEORGE WHITE, 

Plunibifjg, Gas & Water Piping, 

24 School St 

C. H. ORDWAY, 

Ibach, Xivers and JSoarOing Stable. 

Hacks Furiiislicil for Weddings, Funerals, 

Private Parties, &(•. Barges Furnisheil 

for Parties at Reasonable Rates. 

CO/?, HIGH £ ASHLAND STREETS. 

Telephone 38-3. 



COLiLiflTERALi bOAN CO. 
(nORTQflQEJ, 

14 State St., fiewburyport. 

TALKING MACHINES. 

Latest machines and records. Horns 
and supplies. 

D. & E. G. BALCH, 

114 Merrimac St. 

GHflRLiESh. DAVIS 

Prescription Druggist, 
Cor. State apd Cl7arter Sts. 

GEORGE E. GILibETT, 

Xoan ©fflce. 

Musical Instruments, Watches, &c., Sold on 
Installments. Mileage Book to let. 

21 Inn Street. 



P. B. JACKSON, Upholsterer, 

iind Prop. Electric Urpet Cle^iner, 

156 Higb 5^treet, 

^1EWBURYP0HT, MASS. 

6:. F. SAHTE0TT. 
Notiiry Public. 

No. 31 State Street Newburyport. 

Deeds, Wills and Probate Business attended 
to at short notice. 



J 
J. F. nORRILL, Prop., NEWBURYPORT. 

RATES: 

$2 PER Day and $? to $io per Week. 



KENT & nARSH, 

FLORISTS. 

1 7 No. Atkinson St. 

NEWBURYPO RT. 

N/jTHANIELR JONES 

fittorriey S Courisellor at Lav^; 

76 State Street. 

TH05. N0YES&50N 
Grocers 

Agents Moxie Nerve Food Co. 



Corner Milk and Bromfield Streets. 



Newburyport Steam Laundry 

36 inn Street, 
NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 



JOHNSON & CRABTREE, Props. 



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^ DalDtj shoes for the ^ 



HIGH GRADE 

FLY 
SCREENS. 

FOR WIND0W5 flHP 
POORS 

Made Bv 

LM. HATCH &SON, 

NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 




11 Wjafl^el ^q. 



Nearly twice fifty years 
a hardware store. 



2)eerin£f i/fower 
jCeacis all othcrsc 

Hay Tedders and all farm tools. 
Hardware for everybody. 

GOODS AND PRICES RIGHT. 



TOPPAN & WILSON. 



^ baby. In hard or soft W 



^ soles OM specialty. 



I BflfiySfiOECO. I 

(^ NEWBUHVPOHT, (^ 

(^' MASS ^^ 

^ ••• M 



JERE HEflLEY. 



Anthracite \x^i 
Bituminous 

COAL 



ALL KINDS OF WOOD. 

4:2 jVIerriiTicfic St., 



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City of NetoburMPOtt 

ONE NEVER FINDS 0QQ/I5I0N TO /IFOLOQIZE FOR A 

FNEun/iTK WrinLLiDwIiLi w/iqon. 





THE F/ICT THAT IT IS A 

D/IILET FNEUM/ITK whalebone ROflb W/IQON 

IS A QERTIFK/ITE TH/IT IT IS THE BEST. 

I. ^. Happep Hy® 
Gold I^edal Whiskey. 

Hig]:\est a\^ards at Paris, 1900; C]:\icago, 1893; 
Ne^ Orlearis, 1885. 

RECOMMENDED BY MANY PHYSICIANS FOR 
THE SICK ROOM. 

Preferred over all otl^ers by club rr\eri for il|e sideboard. 
Used exclusively by pruder^t people for self-protectiori. 



For sale by 



E. F. South wick, 



4-6-8 Middle St., 



Nev^buryport, Mass 



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3PiftietK Annt\?er0aru 



Newburyport Sljoe Go. 



Compliments 

of a 

Friend. 



Coal 



and 
Wood 




One of Their Leaders. 

If you want a Carriage 
of the best quality and 
style or have a nice 
Carriage you want put 
in first-class condition 
by expert workmen^ 
call on 



Est. of R VARINA, C- F. Worthcii, 



106 1-2 Merrimae St., 

5 Bridge Road. 



Tf lepliiiii** Connection. 



Residence, 

27 Milk 5t., Newburyport. 

Factory at Amesbury. 



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City of Netoburmjott 




J. M. QREENOUQH, 

Hack, Livery, Boarding and Baiting Stables, 

5 & 7 TEMPLE ST. (Opp. Public Library), 
NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 

Largest and best stock of Funeral and Livery 
Carriaares in the city. 

W. C CUSECK, 
IReal jEstate an& Unsurance, 

No. 24 state Street, 

NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 

Lyonj' CbocoUt Cremej ^ 

Sold only by 

FOWLES' NEWS CO., 

17 State Street. 

DRINKMT^TER, 
^ F^ine TTailoring ^ 

Corner State and Middle Streets, 
Upstairs. Newburyport, Mass. 

DEXTER W. NUTTINU, 
Notary Public ^ J^ 

Jk jk U. S. Pension Agent. 

Pension P.usiness and Auction Sales will 
Receive Prompt Attention. 

Office— 8 Essex Street, Upstairs. 

^ N/ISON'5 0RCME5TR/I ^ 

Sihvat/s ^/p-io-daie. 

Office - = 3 Qriffin Block, 

NEWBURYPORT. 

V)oes your Coffeo piease you ? 

If not try my Special at 

Per QSo. Can. 

JOHN E. WEARE. 

97 Merrimac St. 



ioe ^Ibot^o 



Opp. p. 0. 23 PLEASANT STREET, - 

50th Anniversary 
^ ^ Market. 

37 IVIarket Square. 
W. p. JONES, 



26 State Street, 

NEWBURYPORT. 

EDWARD A. HALE, 

Manufacturer of 

Paper ^ BOx:es 

Of ever}' description. 

Cor. Piiie and Water Sts., Newburyport, Mass. 



HHLE'S- 



Parcel and Baggage Express. 

FREIGHT FORWARDING. 

Office and Store at Jaclison's Express Office. 

Telephone Connection. 

HALE KNIGHT, 

Flour, Hay, Grain, Grass Seeds, 

Poultry Supplies, Etc. 

City Grist Mills. Newburyport, Mass. 

CHASE'S, 

No. 19 inn Street. 

BiCiKle IRepairing an^ 

Small /iDacbine mork. 



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3riftxeth Annityersartr 3^ 




MADE BY 

N. D. DODGE & BLISS COMPANY, 

PRODUCERS OF 

SPECIALTIES -^ IN -^ SLIPPERS. 



O^ LANGLEY 

" JURNITURE 

^ x6 



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^U City of KetobuYtjpoTf 





Eldrcdgc Brewing Co. 



Hie 



anb 



■^^^^H-^ 



%nQCt JBecr. 



PORTSMOUTH, N. H. 



H. FISHER ELDREDGE, Pres. and Treas. 



(T- 




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THE FIBERLOID GO. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

"FIBERLOID" 

WATERPROOF COLLARS, CUFFS & SHEETING FOR NOYELTIES 



SALESROOM 636-638 BROADV/AY, 
NEW YORK 



flewburgport^ ]V[ass. 



Established 1882. 



J. (J. LITTLE, President. C. E. Davis, Treas. & Gen. Mgr. 

MERRIMAC RIVER TOWING CO. 

OFFICE, BROWN'S WHARF. 

NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 

SEA AND RIVER TOWING. 

Telephone Connection. 
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City of J^ewburypott 

pavefhill \ Amegbufij ^t. \^. Go, 

CONNECTS BY DIRECT ROUTE 

HAVERHILL, AMESBURY, NEWBURYPORT 



n 




I 



AND 



Salisbupy 3each. 

With Connections to Hampton Beach and Portsmouth. Through Cars 
During the Summer Season. 

Salisbury Beach is the finest beach on the New England Coast. Fine Hotels 

Bathing and Fishing. 

VAUDEVILLE SHOWS 

and other attractions afternoon and evening. 

Citizens' Electric St. Ry. Co. 

Operates its cars between 

Newburyport, Amesbury, Newbury 



and 



PLUM ISLAND. 

With through connections to Haverhill and points beyond. Visit Plum 
Island, twenty minute ride from Newburyport, where you will 
find Fine Hotels and Cafes. 

VAUDEVILLE SHOWS 

and other attractions afternoon and evening. 
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3riftietK Auut^eraarij 

Do You Use Ale? 

Are you a Judge of Good Ale? 

Do You Like the Best? 

IF YOU HAVE NOT TRIED 

BOWLER BROS; 
'^ TADCASTER ALES 

GIVE YOURSELF THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT, 
THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT TADCASTER IS 
PURE AND WHOLESOME, 

UNMATCHED IN FLAVOR, 

PERFECT IN TONE AND BOUQUET. 

Connoisseurs Prefer it to All Others ! 

YOUR FRIENDS will like it! 

YOU WILL SAVE money and get the Best! 
THE BEST, in MATERIALS used. 

THE BEST, in the ART of BREWING! 
THE BEST, because we KNOW HOW! 

To MAKE THE BEST ALE Made 

In THIS or any OTHER country. 

Brewed by BOWLER BROS., LTD,, 

Worcester, Mass. 

Bottled by Thos. Glynn & Son, 

Newburyport, Mass. 
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€itij of NetpbtirypoTt 

Georgetown, Rowley and Ipswich 

.J» AND ^ 

Haverhill, Georgetown and Danvers 
Street Railway Co* 

Cars leave Newbury port for Rowley, Ipswich, Byfield, Georgetown 
Groveland and Haverhill at 6. A. M. and every half hour until 10.30 
P. M. 10 o'clock car to Georgetown only and 10.30 to Byfield. 

Leave Ipswich for Rowley, Newburyport, Byfield, Georgetown, Grove- 
land and Haverhill at 6. A. M. and every half hour until 10.30 P. M. 
10 o'clock car to Georgetown only and 10.30 car to Byfield. 

Leave Haverhill for Groveland, Georgetown, B^-field, Newburyport 
Rowley and Ipswich at 6. A. M. and every half hour until 11. P. M. 
9.30, 10, 10.30, and 11 o'clock cars run to Byfield only. 

Sunday time same as week day time except the first cars leave two 
hours later. 

Last through cars leave Haverhill 9. P. M: leave Newburyport and 
Ipswich 9.30 P. M. 

The arrival or departure of cars at the time stated is not guaranteed' 
nor does the company hold itself responsible for any delay or any conse- 
quences arising therefrom. 

J- Jt 

Subject to change without notice. 

GEO. W. PRATT, Supt. 
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3riftutK AunttyeT0aT)j 




LIQUORS AND ALES 

Of the best quality always to be found at 

Thk Senate 

BY C H. DECIE 



10 to i6 Merrimac St. 



Newburyporj 



ORGANIZED 1881. 



!ew6urrport €0.^ IBanD. 



Music Furnished for Picnics, Concerts, 
Parades, &c. 



DODGE BROTHERS 

Unstarpassed 
SlToes : : 



Newburyport 



Mass. 



KARL CASTELHUN 

2 State Street 
Newburyport, - - Mass. 

PORTER, ROGERS & CO. 

Clothiers Hatters 

Outfitters 

Operators of 27 Stores. 
PLEASANT ST. GRIFFIN BLOCK 

W. H. Noyes c^ Bro- Co- 

Manufacturers of 

HOEN COMBS. 



Newburyport 



riass. 



R. M. PERLEY, 

Newburyport, Mass. 



WiLiblAM T. HUMPHHEVS 

InsarariGe 



24 state Street 



Newburyport 



ESTABLISHED 1844. 

JAMES C. COLMAN 

Lumber, Lime, Cement and 
Plastering Hair. 

MERCANTILE WHARF, NEWBURYPORT 
Dimension lumber procured at short notice. 

A. J. (ASEY & (0. 

- Central ?h^m\cy • 

4 state Street, 
Newburyport, Mass. 



JOHN S. PIKE 

Boots, Shoes and Rubbers 

No. 25 Jlerrimac Street, Newburyport. 
Corner of Unicorn Street. 

DR. ALBERT W. ROGERS 
DEXTIST. 

Griffin Block, Newburyport. 
OFFICE HOURS : 8.30 A. M. to 6 P. M. 

W. C. BENSON 

Carriage Woodwork and 
Repairing. 

MECHANICS COURT. 

ROBERT E. BURKE 

Bttoincv? at Xaw. 



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Ml 



IDacationing ? -*-* 

THE TOdR BOOH 

Issued by the 

Bost09 apd /T^aipe I^ailroad 

Gives you complete information regarding Hotels 

and Boarding Houses, Routes, Rates, Stage 

and Steamer Connections, together 

with detailed Maps of the 

VflCflTIO]Sl HEGIONS 

OF 

Northero New England. 

ffi^ t^^ tfi^ 

This Book sent Free upon Application to General Passenger Department, Boston. 

t^^ t^^ t^^ 

D. J. FLANDERS, 

General passenger and 7'ic^et H,gent. 

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ITnstitutton tor Savings 

IN NEWBURYPORT AND ITS VICINITY. 



{Irtroq^orated 1S20.) 



OFFICERS. 

President. 
Henry B. Little, 
Vice Presidents, 
E. p. Dodge, Samuel March L. B. Gushing. 

Trudees. 
E. P. Dodge, 
L. B. Gushing, 
Samuel Mai-ch, 
Gharles W. Moseley, 
William P. .Jones, 
Henry B. Little, 
T. C. Simpson. 
Paul A. Merrill, 
H. Russell Perkins, 
Lucien D. Gole, 
Edward F. Little, 
F. S. 
Treasurer. 
Lawrence W. Piper. 

Bookkeepers. 

William Balch, Louis A. Blaisdell. 

Auditor. 
Philip H. Lunt. 
Deposits commence to draw interest oia the third Wednesday of January, 
April, July, and October. 

Dividends are payable on the fourth Wednesday of April and October. 
OPEN DAILY 8.30 A. M. TO 2 P. M. 



Daniel S. Burley, 
N. N. Jones, 
L. W. Brown, 
George W. Piper, 
F. O. Woods, 
L. W. Piper, 
Oilman W. Brown, 
B. G. Gerrish, 
J. C. Colman, 
W. Burke Little, 
Davis F. Noyes, 
Moseley. 



Secretary. 
George F. Avery, 



Quarterly Statement. 



ASSETS. 
Public Funds, 
Gity and Town Notes, 
Bank Stock. 
Railroad Bonds. 
Loans on Real Estate, . 
Loans on Personal Security, 
Loans on Bank Stock, 
Banking House. . 
Real Estate by Foreclosure, 
Deposits in National Banks, 
Gash, . . . . , 



APRIL 1, 1901. 

Deposits, 



LIABILITIES. 



$1.2£!2,000 00 

. 32,900 00 

640,533 00 

1.190.000 00 

1,S40,714 00 

],542,80.S .50 

. 8,300 00 

10,000 00 

. 58,899 34 

149.237 11 

. 323 59 



Guaranty Fund. 
Undivided Profits, 



.§6,219,417 85 
306,000 00 
186,297 69 



$6,711,715 .54 

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§6,711,715 54 
L. W. PIPER, Treasurer. 




Citij of NetobxtrjjpoTt | ]^| 



FROM 1780 TO 1901. 




Over a Century of Usefulness. 

A. & G. J. CALDWELL, Distillers, 



SOLOMON, when in the height of his glory, proclaimed that good wine was life 
to the body and made the soul glad. For more than a 100 years Caldwell's 
rum has both helped to prolong life and make many a heart glad, and right here 
I want to say that when radical prohibitionists realize that it is not by abolishing 
the sale of liquor, but by lightening heavy hearts that drunkeness can be abolished 
from society, then people will learn under happier conditions that temperance in 
all things is necessary to the full enjoyment of life, and that the man who takes, 
as occasion demands, a glass of this famous old time beverage, is, in reality, the 
only temperance man. I find in looking up data that the business of this house 
dates back to 1780, and was founded by Alexander Caldwell, grandfather of the 
present proprietors located at the same place, 178 Merrimack treet. Of the 10 
rum distillers that flourished in Newburyport in 1790 only the Caldwell plant sur- 
vives. The original building still stands as an enduring monument to its founder, 
and the purity of Caldwell's rum has never been questioned. The distillery proper 
measures 150x60 feet, while the warehouse measures 70x35 feet ; the buildings are 
thoroughly fitted up and equipped throughout with all the necessary machinery 
and the rum is distilled from the finest quality of molasses and is carried in heated 
warehouses, the output beiug about 3.000 barrels a year. The rum is distilled in 
copper and guaranteed free from any foreign substances, and stands as it always 
has at the head. The standing of the house is so well known as to need no com- 
mendation at our hands. Suffice it to say that in a career extending over so long 
a period it has maintained a position of which the proprietors may justly feel 
proud, and for which it is entitled to the highest esteem and consideration. 

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^^OPERA QUEEN'' 

CIGARS. 

H. E. NOYES, - - 6 State Street, 
NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 

JOHN E. LUNT, 

Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry and 

Silverware, 

46 STATE STREET, 

Newburyport, Mass. 

eKPcjOQLjx^ S^^ePia6Pe 
CASTELHUN ^ HALE, 

li/Jusic. Musical Instwrrjents, Pictures 
arjd Frames, 

PtjOiographic l/ieuus of Newburyport. 
78 ST/fTE STREET. 
E. A. Hale, Manager. 



NELSON 

^bc bailor 

8 State Street, 

Newburyport 

CHAS. C. STOCKMAN 

Ciiiijcts, Hanger, Coiiclies, Asli, <Jak and 

White Enameled Kurniture, Fancy 

Rockers, Morris Cliair.s, Mattres.^es, Iron 

Bedsteads, Spring Beds and IJaby 

Carriage-. 

10 STATE STREET. 



GEO. F. WOODMAN, 

Fresh and Salt Fish, Oysters and 
Clams. Salads of all kinds. 

Canned Qood.'; Best in the Market. 



44 MARKET SQUARE. 



Tel. 110-13. 



(Jpi). I'olice Station- 



PROF. BAPTISTE. 

Ladies' & Gents' Shoe Blacking Parlor. 

49 PLEASANT ST. 

50th Anniversary Shine 

5traw Hats Cleansed while you wait 

v/foodi/ Jiimbalif 

4 /-2 6iate Street, 

T^cwburyport, 77/ass, 
Jxa/r VJreaser. 



PIKE & ELLIOTT, 

FUNERAL J- UNDERTAKERS- 

I'repared at all liours to do Kndialniing 

and Funeral Work. I>ady Assistant 

when desired. 

Wareroom, 46 Pleasant St. 

Residence, 27 1-2 Washington St. 

Telephone Connei-tions. 

L. A. KOOTK, 
i^uicf^ Xunch, 

^ 29 MARKET SQUARE, ^ 

Ladies' Dining Room Ui)stairs. 

Kelfsej Warm ^vn (£)encrator£;. 

D. F. NOYES, 

Stoves, Ranges and Kitchen Furnishings, 
24 Pleasant Street. 



Wol?e Taver9 ^ 

Hair Dressing 
FJooms. 



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pleWki'ijpoiili Five GBnt^ ^aviqg^ Banl^. 



PRESIDENT, 
Moses H. Fowler. 
VICE-PRESIDENTS. 
Nathaniel Dole, 
TRUSTEES. 
M. H. Fowler, 
Albert Currier, 
W. F. Houston, 
Geo. II. Plumer, 
Wni. H. No3'es, 
Allen M. Brewster, 
J. V. Felker, 
H. D. Dodge, 
BOARD OF INVESTMENT. 
Nathaniel Dole, Wm. F. Houston, 

.J. A. Maynard, Sec. and Treas., John T. Lunt, Bookkeeper, 

James V. Felker, Auditor. 
Deposits will be put upon interest the la^^t Monday of .Tanuary, April, July and October. 
Dividends payable senii-annually on the tirst Monday in Mav and November. 
Bank open daily from 8.0U A. .M.'to 2 P. M. except on Holidays. 



Albert Currier, 

Jno. H. Balch, 
Ale.x. Caldwell, 
J. J. Currier, 

E. P. Shaw, 
Geo. E. Currier, 
A. P. Sawyer, 

F. A. Howe, 
W. R. Johnson, 

M. H. Fowler, 



P. H. Blumpey. 

P. H. Blumpey, 
S. N. Noyes, 
Nathaniel Dole, 
VV. J. Hale, 
F. L. Atkinson, 
J. H. Balch, Jr., 
Chas. L. Davis, 
J. A. ISIaynard. 

\Vm. A. Johnson 



Statement May i8, igoi. 



ASSETS. 
Public Funds 
Bank Stocks 
Loans on Bank Stock 
Railroad Bonds 
Banking House 
Real Estate 
Loans on Real Estate 
Loans on Personal & Collateral 
Deposits in Banks on interest- 
Cash 



$421,800.00 

. 8-2 ,-200. 00 

. 33,000.00 

202,000.00 

. 30,0(10.00 

. 21,07.').00 

621,34.=i.00 

2S:J,200.00 

. 54,808.82 

. 1,119.36 



LIABILITIES. 
Due Depositors 
Guaranty Fund 
Profits tfudivided 



$1,810,554.18 

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$1,670,0,50.73 
. 82,500.00 
. 49,003.45 



$1,810,554.18 




^Fiftieth Annityeroartj 




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E. P. STIGKHEY, 
Provisiops. 

^ 54 bIME STREET. ^ 

For Big Bargains in Up-to-date Footwear 
DAY'S IS THE PLACE, 

214 Merrimac Street. 



REPAIRINa A SPECIALTY. 

Buy your Carpets, Wall Papers, Drap- 
eries, Rugs, Mattings, Oil Cloths, 
Couches, Fancy Chairs and Rockers, 
Iron Beds, Springs and Mattresses, 
Chiffoniers, etc, of 

WM. M. HORSCH'S, 

27 Pleasant Street, - Newburyport, Mass. 

STATE STREET "PHARMACY," 

I State Street, 



NEWBURYPORT, 



Where all the Cars Stop. 



MASS. 

Connected by Telephone. 



G. W. MARDEN & SON, 
Carrtaoc J- /IDanutacturers- 

Carriage aqd Sign Pairjtiqg a Specialty. 

3 Harris Street, Rear Wolfe Tavern. 

Mechanic's Court, Pearson's Wharf. 



GEO. H. PEARSON, 
Stationer anb JBoohseller, 

35 State Street, 

KTETAT'BXJPl'X'I^OR T. 

EDWARD H. ROWELL, 

Attorney at Law, 
25 STATE STREET, ^ J, 

NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 



DAVID P. PAGE, 



Counsellor at Law 

45 STATE STREET. 

HORACE I. BARTLETT, 

Attorney at Law, 
25 STATE STREET, Jt J. 

NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 

PHILIP H. LUNT, 

Estates Settled. Probate Business 

Attended to. 

Office: No. \l State Street (lip One Flight), 

NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 

Residence, No. 62 High Street. 

ORRIN J. GURNEY, 

Manufacturer of 

Paper and Wooden Boxes, 
6 Congress Street. 

This is the 169th Anniversary of 

^ Davis' Sail \lo\\. ^ 

Established by Ambrose Davis, 

May 4th, 1733. 

Now carried on by Benj. G. Davis. 

CLARENCE DANFORTH, 
^/cj/c/es and Sundries 

34 Washington Street, 

I,ong Distance Telephone. Near Depot. 

Tasty Decorations for Weddings. FL0RI5T. 

JOSEPH J. COMLEY, 

iO^uck Street, '^eivburj/port, T^ass. 

Roses, Carnations, Violets, 
Palms and Ferns. 



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THE BON MARCHE, 

16, 18, 20 and 22 Pleasant Street, 

-NEWBURYPORT, MASS. 



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We can feci a 
just pride in the 
Sei/ii- Centeniiial of 
our City in present- ' \\'^>V^ 
ingthe Largest and 
Best Equipped De- 
partme7it Store ever 
opened here. 




Tzventyfonr De- 
partments of the 
Dry and Fancy 
Goods Trade are 
Jiere reprcse?ited, 
zvith the prodncts of 
the World at prices 
second to none any- 
wJiere. 



WILLIAM G. FISHER, Proprietor. 

We extoid a cordial invitation to the absent sons and danghters nozu 
visiting here to jnake onr Store their meeting-place. 

Suitable Waiting Room and Toilet Accommodation at the disposal 
of all P D -J ^ 

While in onr city one of the signts is the | 

ENLARGED and REMODELLED 

son I^AHGHE 



FISHER & CO. 



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